Grgur Akrap

He was born in 1988 in Zagreb. In 2013, he graduated from the Department of Teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Prof. Damir Sokić. He has been actively participating in the art scene for the last ten years in the field of figurative coloristic painting in a series of group and solo exhibitions in Croatia and abroad.

Through his painting opus, he explores the property of color as a means of symbolic, archetypal and mythical expression of universal civilizational values. On the other hand, he also uses color as a means of expressing individual and subjective psychological and spiritual states. The symbols that appear in his paintings indicate the aspiration for a metaphysical merging of the visible and the invisible, and at the same time the creation of opposition to the real and rational through mystical and exotic fantasy.

As part of the courses in the field of painting, students go through practical work aimed at exploring the expressive possibilities within different painting techniques. They are guided through the basic art concepts (proportion, symmetry, harmony, composition, rhythm...) and learn to realize painting studies using first tonal modeling, and later coloristic modulation.

2025 – "Exuviae", Yiri Arts, Taipei, Taiwan 2025 – "Independent Art Fair", New York, USA 2024 – "The Metamorphosis", Yiri Arts, Taipei, Taiwan 2024 – "Licked by the Waves", Museum MORE, Gorsel, The Netherlands 2024 – "CAN art fair Ibiza", Ibiza, Spain 2024 – "UVNT Art Fair", Madrid, Spain 2023 – "Garden of Beasts", HAGD contemporary, Aalborg, Denmark 2023. – 7. Biennial of Painting, Croatian Association of Artists, Zagreb 2023 – "The Artist is a Beast", Edwin Oostmeijer Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2020 – "Blind Painter", Kranjčar Gallery, Zagreb